Marcy Wins No. 3 Stanford's Ted Marcy won his third straight pommel! horse title with a near- perfect 19 .325. Marcy joined six others who have won three consecutive title s in the 34-year history of the Championships. Winners in second and thirdplace were carbon copies of last year, with Arizona State's L. J. Larson scoring 18.825 in second, and Iowa State's Don Young finishing third with an 18.800. Larson also finished third behind Marcy in 1974. Doug Wood of Iowa State upset teammate Keith Heaver, twotime defending still rings champion. Wood won the crown with an 18.875, edging Heaver's second-place 18.800. Kormann tied for sixth. Cal State-Fullerton ' s Sam Shaw won the vaulting competition with an 18.900, while 1975 third-place winner, Bob Rikli of Oregon did not place. Floor exercise was won by Colorado State's Bob Robbins with an 18.90. Rikli finished runnerup with a close 18.875. California's Tom Beach prompted II.is all-around title by winning the horizontal bar crown with a fine 19.150. UCLA's Steve Sargeant, runnerup in 1975, finished a distant eighth. Perhaps some of the biggest surprises of the Championships were in all-around. Tom Weeden of California , 1975 runnerup, placed seventh . Nebraska's Gene Mackie slipped from fourth last year to eighth. Yoichi Tomita of Long Beach State, fifth last year, finished ninth , and Louisiana State's Mike Godawa took 13th, after placing sixth in 1975. Penn State's effort was aided by Kurt Pflieger's seventh-place in floor exercise; another seventh by Paul Simon on parallel bars; and Bob Desiderio's ninth in vaulting.
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Kormann Sparks Southern Connecticut
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Floor exercise-Bob Robbins (Colorado State) 18.900. Pommel! horse-Ted Marcy (Stanford) 19.325. Still rings-Doug Wood (Iowa State) 18.875. Vaulting-Sam Shaw (Cal StateFullerton) 18.900. Parallel bars--Gene Whelan (Penn State) 18.625. Horizontal bar-Tom Beach (California) 19 .150. All-around-Peter Kormann (Southern eonnecticut-State)-108.95;~.- - - -
TEAM RESULTS 1. Penn State 432.075. 2. Louisiana State 425.125. 3. California 421.950. 4. Nebraska 421.05. 5. Minnesota 407 .60 . 6. Arizona State 402 .75. 7. Temple 395.60. 8. Cal State-Fullerton 389.50 .
Stealing the show with five individual titles, Peter Kormann ignited Southern Connecticut State College to its second consecutive National Collegiate Division II Gymnastics crown. Placing in all seven exercises at the University of Northern Iowa, Kormann defended his 1975 all-ar.ound and floor exercise titles, plus gained new ones in the still rings, vaulting and horizontal bar. In addition, the junior superstar placed second on parallel bars, and third on the pommell horse.
Record Smashed Southern Connecticut State established a team scoring standard by winning the Championships with 419 .20 points, breaking its own 411 .65 total in 1975. Closest competition included the next four teams, where 19 points separated second through fifth places. Illinois-Chicago Circle took second-place with 388.85 points, followed by third-place Springfield College (375.50), fourthplace Cal State-Northridge (375 .30) and fifth-place WisconsinOshkosh (369 .65). Kormann brought his Division n place performances to 12 in three years of intercollegiate competition, earning one his freshman year, and four others in 1975 prior to this year. Only two other gymnasts have won five Division II titles in one year. Kormann JOms former Southern Connecticut State star John Crosby, who accomplished the feat in 1973, and Cal StateNorthridge's Rich Grigsby in 1969. Kormann and Grigsby are tied for second in the all-time career individual titles won with seven, while Crosby leads with 12.
Kormann Brilliant All-around honors were retained by Kormann on an impressive 110. 75 performance to hand Southern Connecticut State its sixth straight all-around title. Floor exercise competition went to Kormann via an 18.95 score~also-south-ern-conn-ecticut
State's sixth straight title in this routine. Defending still rings champion Larry Bilow, Cal State-Northridge, felt Kormann's graceful wrath as the Southern Connecticut ace took the competition with an 18.625. Bilow settled for third, based on an 18.175 score,
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behind Kormann's second-place teammate Victor Randazzo, who scored an 18.20. Kormann's second new title came in vaulting exercise with an 18.60 showing. Chico State's Dennis Chase placed second with an 18.45. Defending 1975 vaulting champion Tony Hall, Springfield , was injured during compulsory exercises and did not compete in the finals. Finally, Kormann secured his fifth title of the Championships by scoring 18.50 on the horizontal bar. He placed third in 1975. The amazing Kormann won five events, tied for one, and placed second in another at the _!!:astern Intercollegiate Gymnasiics League Championships prior f.O the nationals. He established <:I collegiate record of scoring 112.5 points in all-around competition during that meet.
Team First What does winning mean to the 1975 Pan American free exercise Gold Medalist? "The most important thing was the team title," he said . "Winning the all-around was important, and I'm extremely pleased to win five titles. "But right now, everything I've been working towards over the past several years has been the Olympic trials. This is my primary goal." Kormann, and all first- and second-place winners automatically qualified for the Division I Championships at Temple. More than 200 gymnasts competed in the ninth annual Division II Gymnastics Championships, with 16 complete teams and representatives from seven others at Northern Iowa's new UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Floor exercise Peter Kormann (Southern Connecticut State) 18.95. Pommel horse--Dave Mesago (Southern Connecticut State) 17.675. Still rings Peter Kormann (Southern Connecticut State) 18.625. VaultingPeter Kormann (Southern Connecticut State) 18.60. Parallel bars - Mike Kavanaugh (Wisconsin- Oshkosh) 18.875. Horizontal bar - Peter Kormann - -(Southern- eonne cticut- State) l8c50'-. - - - All-around-Peter Kormann (Southern Connecticut State) 110.75.
TEAM RES UL TS 1. Southern Connecticut State 419.20 . 2. Illinois-Chicago Circle 388.85. 3. Springfield 375.50. 4. Cal State-Northridge 375.30. 5. Wisconsin- Oshkosh 369.65. 6. Chico State 333.70. 7. Sacramento State 320.30. 8. Western Illinois 299.75 . 9. Wheaton 292.80. 10. Northern Iowa 274.35.